News update: Two women shot in murder-suicide at Aurora Ave. cemetery

One elderly woman was shot to death and another hospitalized at Harborview Medical Center on Tuesday evening after police reported that they had both suffered gunshot wounds in an apparent murder-suicide at the Evergreen-Washelli Funeral Home and Cemetery in the 11000 block of Aurora Avenue North.

P-I reporter Levi Pulkkinen was among the first reporters on the scene and reported that the women appeared to have been shot in a car parked along a road inside the cemetery next to a group of graves.

Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt said police were called to the cemetery shortly before 6 p.m. to investigate after a passerby happened by the scene and saw the aftermath of the shooting.

When officers arrived, they reported finding the victims, with one of the women still inside the car. Homicide detectives were called in, and police cordoned off a small area of the cemetery while they took photographs and tried to determine what had happened.

The car appeared to have been packed with belongings, Pulkkinen reported.

Witt said police are investigating to determine if the two victims were related, possibly mother and daughter. The younger woman, who was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, was reported to be an 60-year-old Seattle resident, but police did not have a confirmed name, age or address for the other woman, thought to be in her 80s.

The elder woman died at Harborview late Tuesday.

Witt said both suffered handgun wounds to the head, and a gun was recovered at the scene.